Jade Vines

Like stepping out of GIGANTIC white concrete building and into the adjacent botanical garden. My friend Julia told me that the woman who formulated this fragrance was conjuring a scent for a plant in her garden that she loved but which carried had no smell. Maybe that's not true, I don't know. This perfume quickly imprints itself on the wearer and performs a prolonged etude. Though lush, the jungle motif is distant from the cloying sticky sweetness one usually associates with the tropical climate. Jade Vines is a bit more grown up and asymmetrical. The leaves are wide and emerald green. The white flowers steep in a clear puddle with their petals crumpled, balled up like tissues. And you are sitting on the cedar bench in a museum, separated from the woods by a sheet of cold glass, fogged with condensation. Tried this on at scent bar, in search of something to wear at my upcoming wedding. The wood notes in Jade Vines will blend completely differently on each person who wears it. Even after many hours, as it becomes increasingly leathery and mulchy, the lilting strings of the flowers are still audible. Evokes a slightly dignified vintage feeling, perfect for a wedding.

Such a unique perfume. Starts out very earthy and green then the white flowers blossom that last for a while until a woody dry down. Reminds me of Tuscany in the summer when you can smell the linden flowers in the day time, and the white florals at night. Realistic earth and flowers and not synthetic or mainstream smelling at all. Perfect for spring/summer. Leans more feminine but my husband likes it as well although he doesn't actually wear it often. I like female scents on men though, it's different.

As an orchid grower, this throws me immediately into the greenhouses of a very specific nursery in Encinitas, California that inspired me as a kid. Lush spicy wet foliage and white florals, ginger and yuzu present in the opening. Shame it only lasts for a few hours max and the price is a little steep. This is my ride or die signature scent until someone finds a way to capture the scent of a tropical greenhouse as well as this one. The closest anyone has gotten is Xinu monstera for context.

Total surprise from Regime des Fleurs! I was looking forward to testing this since I have a penchant for green notes as well as white florals but wasn't expecting to get such a realistic, humid greenhouse opening AND a mentholated tuberose (think a tamed Tubereuse Criminelle). Have been waiting/looking for something like this for ages and was not expecting it to come from this house. Only downside is it mellows out to a smooth gardenia a little too quickly but alas.

Took me a couple wears, but I keep going back to it. Opens airy and crisp, 2000s childhood backyard nostalgia or 2000s' nostalgia for the 1980s. A bit synthetic, but playful and relaxed. Then through the green it opens and warms, as if discovering something real. After an hour or so it's all gardenia and light tuberose, late afternoon. The few RdF samples I've tried are all melancholic, and this is a moment of balance, a pause, in sadness.

Wow, I was not expecting to love this scent as much as I do. A total sleeper scent if you just read the notes. When I opened it and first sniffed it, I was like yeah sure ok. Then the longer I smelled it, I was like oh yeah this is the scent you wear when you want to be the hot girl out to dinner with your friends on vacation in Bali. It's just super sexy, lush, and green.

One of my favorite scents. It smells so fresh, delicate and clean. Very unique in my opinion. Lasts most of the day on me surprisingly. There are moments where it does smell like cigarettes but like in the best way possible. I can't stop smelling it. There is just something about it.

Truly evokes a jade plant, though the gardenia really comes through. I want to wear this to a museum or a park with stately landscaping. Feels very grown up and elegant. It would be disrespectful to call the jade vines woman a MILF, but I bet you’d do it anyway.

If you've ever been to the conservatory of flowers in SF, this smells exactly like the lily pad room. One to one exactly. Honestly, made me super nostalgic. I wish it wasn't so pricey, or I'd buy it just as a memory vessel to one of my favorite places.

Opens with a surprisingly photorealistic rainforest. Like the humid wet ground and trees. After a few minutes it fades to a very pleasant semi tropical white floral. I’m a fan and will be purchasing for summer.

Incredibly refreshing—smells exactly like mist and fog. Lush wet greenery, dew-soaked petals, almost a spicy earthiness underneath. Gorgeous!

wide sargasso sea by jean rhys

A tuberose freshie with a distinctly bitter edge. Green tuberose and a creamy dirty gardenia combine with spicy hot ginger and bitter yuzu to create a mentholated shower steamer type of tuberose fragrance. The ginger in this is spicy hot and all the notes together create a sappy and earthy vibe that is opposite to the lush, heady, and rich femme fatale feeling of many other tuberose perfumes. All that has been stripped out of this and what’s left is bracing, green and full of energy. There is a feeling of soil and growing things and fertility. The dry down on this is soapy and woody and still reminds me of a shower steamer, just a different one. This lasts a respectable 6 hours on skin and projects to arms length for the first couple hours.

The first place I saw a jade vine was a greenhouse in Singapore, and I think this fragrance evokes that vision perfectly. It’s a humid white floral, spiked with incense. A rainforest, but without the woodrot of the earth. All flower, no brakes. There’s no rose listed in the notes, but for some reason I’m getting a spiced, burgundy rose carrying all the jasmine and tuberose. The ginger arrives fashionably late, around thirty minutes in. Mental Snapshot: Tropical holy water. A shrine with curtains of pale blooms, carpeted in crushed rose petals. A perfectly manicured jungle, inside a glass chapel. tl;dr: greenhouse bouquet 💐💮

I walked over to my dad wearing this and he asked me why I smell like tobacco. I furrowed my eyebrows in confusion. He smokes, so I figured that scent was just lingering on his own clothes, but a couple of people below agree with him. To me, Jade Vines is a beautiful and sophisticated white floral fragrance. Nothing grannyish about it. I feel like it's something a very attractive woman in her 30s would wear to her job as an art dealer or something. Maybe that'll be me in ten years. I sprayed it at 8am and it's still going strong as we approach 5pm. Glam and green. Pairs well with: Heart Stop - Wax Tailor, Jennifer Charles

This throbbing, humid, green, waxy gardenia-tuberose really does evoke a jade plant! Really lovely stuff — only the price point gives me pause about purchasing a full bottle. Between this and leather petals I fear I may be losing a pretty penny to regime des fleurs! Edit: this does go just slightly soapy on drydown on my skin which honestly I am relieved about as an excuse not to purchase. My mission for the perfect earthy green gardenia continues!

I like this! It reminds me a LOT of a crystal shop. I got a strong jasmine smell but don't see that as a note which is kind of interesting. It smells just like incense to me. It's a lot less delicate than I was expecting, and I don't know if it's the most wearable for me, but I really like how much it smells like one of those little hippie small business shops :)

Easy floral from start to finish with light projection. Turns into a light spicy wood scent in the drydown. I like Jade Vines but it’s a pass at this price point— I have to love it to fork over three Benjamins. One caveat is that Jade Vines feels and wears natural, so I appreciate the effort.

The part of me that loves green fragrances likes it....the part of me that dislikes gardenia and is meh about tuberose is disappointed. I think it’s like if someone used some L’Occitain green verbena lotion and then sprayed some White Shoulders on top of it 😅

Lightly mentholated and zesty white floral that stays polite but doesn’t lose its greenhouse humidity. Big congrats to citrus, cedar, and ginger for coordinating as a team to manage the cloying sweetness of tuberose and gardenia. Slick work.